| 单词 | small-beer character |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall-beer character (b) In figurative uses (cf. sense 2), as small-beer air, small-beer character, etc. ΚΠ 1637 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Elder Brother ii. ii. sig. D2 Such small beere braines, but aske 'em any thing Out of the Element of their understanding, And they stand gaping like a roasted Pig. 1641 Preparative to Studie 4 If I be once inflam'd against thy Foes That would preach down thy worth in small-beer-prose. 1648 G. Daniel Eclog. iii. 262 Eudæmon, still..in Small~beer ayre [you] Flutter with feeble wings. 1682 A. Behn City-heiress iii. i. 29 That..Puritanical, Schismatical, Phanatical, Small-beer-face of thine. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) App. 318 A lad may..chop logic as glibly in a college, where they eat and drink like christians, as in any small-beer hall whatsoever. 1789 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 92 If the reigning prince were not the small-beer character that he is. 1824 Westm. Rev. July 181 The second volume [of Redgauntlet] contains a diary, or small-beer journal. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers Small-beer Chronicle, In the House of Commons what small-beer orators try to pass for strong? 1919 G. Saintsbury Hist. French Novel II. vii. 293 In some ways he was a kind of Thackeray several degrees under-proof—a small-beer Thackeray. 2004 C. Byron Testosterone Inc. 81 Tyco Labs was little more than a small-beer version of SCM. < as lemmas |
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